When the only stakeholders to gather requirements from are constantly too busy to meet with you (a rant)
I recently accepted a BA position in a new department and I’m going absolutely crazy. Have a lot of big projects in the pipeline but nothing gets delegated around here so I’m constantly meeting with only directors, chiefs, etc. of the organization and their calendars are too hectic to put any meaningful amount of time into discussing requirements, workflows, etc. Apparently they are the only ones that know enough about any of these initiatives or projects to speak on them.
I don’t know how sustainable this is. I’ve been very communicative with my supervisor that my blockers are literally just these people’s calendars- they don’t have time to meet. But I feel like at some point this excuse is going to get old.
I’ve even resorted to trying to gather requirements asynchronously via emails, but it’s just so inefficient.